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27 October 2015

On This Day: Massachusetts executes Quakers

Many came to America
to escape religious persecution. William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, were
two of those persons. They fled England
in 1656 for just that reason. Massachusetts
was not as welcoming as, for example, Pennsylvania
was. In fact Massachusetts
actually banned Quakers, also known as the Religious Society of Friends, from
the colony! The penalty for being a Quaker there was death and in fact, On This
Day in 1659, Massachusetts
executed two Quakers for their religious beliefs.